Brownell, Francis E. (Block 40, Lot 2316) - Rank and Organization: Private, Company A, 11th New York Infantry. Place and Date: Alexandria, Virginia, 24 May 1861. Date of Issue: 26 January 1877. Citation: Killed the murderer of Colonel Ellsworth at the Marshall House, Alexandria, VA.
Evans, William (Block 205, Lot 1) - Rank and Organization: Private, Company E, 7th United States Infantry. Place and Date: Big Horn Montana, 9 July 1876. Date of Issue: 2 December 1876. Citation: Carried dispatches to Brigadier General Crook through a country occupied by Sioux.
Fout, Frederick W. (Block 186, Lot X) - Rank and Organization: Second Lieutenant, 15th Battery, Indiana Light Artillery. Place and Date: Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 15 September 1862. Date of Issue: 2 November 1896. Citation: Voluntarily gathered the men of the battery together, remanned the guns, which had been ordered abandoned by an officer, opened fire, and kept up the same on the enemy until after the surrender.
Guerin, Fitz W. (Block 155-157, Lot 4001) - Rank and Organization: Private, Battery A, 1st Missouri Light Artillery. Place and Date: Grand Gulf, Mississippi, 28-29 April 1863. Date of Issue: 10 March 1896. Citation: With two comrades voluntarily took position on board the steamer Cheeseman, in charge of all the guns and ammunition of the battery, and remained in charge of the same for a considerable time while the steamer was unmanageable and subjected to a heavy fire from the enemy.
Hammel, Henry A. (Block 191, Lot 3766) - See Guerin, Fitz for all other information.
O'Brien, Henry D. (Block 292, Lot 4482) - Rank and Organization: Corporal, Company E, 1st Minnesota Infantry. Place and Date: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 3 July 1863. Date of Issue: 9 April 1890. Citation: Taking up the colors where they had fallen, he rushed ahead of his regiment, close to the muzzles of the enemy's guns, and engaged in the desperate struggle in which the enemy was defeated, and though severely wounded, he held the colors until wounded a second time.
Pesch, Joseph (Block 281, Lot 4537) - See Guerin, Fitz for all other information.
Skinker, Alexander R. (Block 78-79, Lot 2342) - Rank and Organization: Captain, 138th Infantry, 35th Division. Place and Date: Cheppy, France, 28 September 1918. General Orders No. 13, War Department, 1919. Citation: Unwilling to sacrifice his men when his company was held up by terrific machine-gun fire from iron pill boxes in the Hindenburg Line, Captain Skinker personally led an automatic rifleman and a carrier in an attack on the machine-guns. The carrier was killed instantly, but Captain Skinker seized the ammunition and continued through an opening in the barbed wire, feeding the automatic rifle until he, too, was killed.
Wherry, William M. (Block 51, Lot 627) - Rank and Organization: First Lieutenant, Company D, 3rd U.S. Reserve Missouri Infantry. Place and Date: Wilsons Creek, Missouri, 10 August 1861. Date of Issue: 30 October 1895. Citation: Displayed conspicuous coolness and heroism in rallying troops that were recoiling under heavy fire.
